About Muttons & Nuts
Phil Treble is the founder of Muttons & Nuts, and a Print Technician at Thin Ice Press: The York Centre for Print, He draws on his experience as a graphic designer and letterpress printer to teach and support the skills required to sustain heritage printing practices.
His career spans print and digital book design, marketing and web design, and front-end development, both in-house at international publishing organisations and as a freelance designer working with creative agencies.
He is a member of the Fine Press Book Association, the Heritage Crafts Association, and the British Printing Society. He has worked for Cambridge University Press, Penguin Books, and Sotheby’s, and has designed books for the Cardozo Kindersley Workshop. He has a BA in Typography & Graphic Communication, and an MA in Publishing.
Exhibitions
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2026: 20:20 Print exchange 2025, touring exhibition (extract from Steve Jobs, Stanford Commencement Speech, 12 June 2005 typeset in a nine dot alphabet)
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September–October 2019: A Show of Hands, Corsham Court, Bath Spa University (‘I have no manicules’ limited edition print)
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October 2019: Muttons & Nuts Artist Showcase, Form Shop and Studio, Hull (selected work)
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February 2019: Ferens Open, Ferens Art Gallery, Hull (‘Misguided Angel’ limited edition print)
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February 2016: In the beginning was the word – An Exhibition of Letters; cut, written and printed, Ely Cathedral, Cambridgeshire (selected work)
Selected publications
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The Velveteen Rabbit, Margery Williams (2025): a beautiful edition of this classic children’s book with new illustrations by Tim Oliver, and an introduction by Helen Smith.
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Pylon 4ZR 25 (2024): a photo book capturing a year in the life of a pylon in the Yorkshire Wolds, inviting viewers to find beauty in the seemingly mundane.
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Tints (2024): a book showing a selection of eight ink colours, from Hawthorn Printmaker Supplies, and how to tint them using weighed out ink in ratios of transparent white to base colour.
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Searching for a Sound (2023): an anthology of writing and art inspired by the music of This Mortal Coil.
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A Miniature (2022): the first book of the poems of Jeff Johnson (1941–2017). Best known as a painter of intricate miniatures – Anthony Green called him ‘the greatest miniaturist that Britain produced in the twentieth century’.
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Tamlane (2020): a folk ballad taken from the 1857 edition of English and Scottish Ballads, edited by Francis James Child.
Photograph by Alex Holland, 2024